I’m a Dutch-Turkish visual artist based in Amsterdam. I graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in 2024, with a focus on moving image, and I currently work as a copywriter at Wieden+Kennedy.
My work explores themes of identity, self-reflection and human connection through experimental documentaries, writing, sound, and sometimes ceramic sculptures.
My work is not about persuasion, but observation, of what people seek, what they long for, what they cannot yet articulate. I move between the polished and the performed, looking for what remains alive.
By making my own ambivalence visible, I try to create a space where something shared might emerge - not certainty, but recognition.
For full length documentations or CV contact
mirayvanderbend@hotmail.com
My work explores themes of identity, self-reflection and human connection through experimental documentaries, writing, sound, and sometimes ceramic sculptures.
My work is not about persuasion, but observation, of what people seek, what they long for, what they cannot yet articulate. I move between the polished and the performed, looking for what remains alive.
By making my own ambivalence visible, I try to create a space where something shared might emerge - not certainty, but recognition.
For full length documentations or CV contact
mirayvanderbend@hotmail.com
2020 - 2024 Gerrit Rietveld academie, BA Moving Image
2022 Exchange program School of the Art Institute of
Chicago, Sound & Moving
image
2019 - 2020 Gerrit Rietveld academie, Pre-course
2018 - 2019 Reinwardt Academie, Cultural Heritage
2014 - 2018 Cibap, BA Spatial Design
2025 - VOV - Van Gogh museum, Amsterdam, NL
2025 - BilBoe - opening, Amsterdam, NL
2025 - Anadolu University - Eskisehir, Turkey
2024 - Graduation Show Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL
2023 - The Latent Space, Chicago, USA
2022 - Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Oceanic Imaginaires, NL
2022 - NeverNeverland, Amsterdam, NL
2019 - Anne Frank house, Museumnacht, Amsterdam, NL